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Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes
Lobate stony landforms occur on steep slopes at high latitudes on Mars. We demonstrate active boulder movement at seven such sites. Submeter‐scale boulders frequently move distances of a few meters. The movement is concentrated in the vicinity of the lobate landforms but also occurs on other slopes....
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31423033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082293 |
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author | Dundas, Colin M. Mellon, Michael T. Conway, Susan J. Gastineau, Renaldo |
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description | Lobate stony landforms occur on steep slopes at high latitudes on Mars. We demonstrate active boulder movement at seven such sites. Submeter‐scale boulders frequently move distances of a few meters. The movement is concentrated in the vicinity of the lobate landforms but also occurs on other slopes. This provides evidence for a newly discovered, common style of activity on Mars, which may play an important role in slope degradation. It also opens the possibility that the lobate features are currently forming in the absence of significant volumes of liquid water. |
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spelling | pubmed-66866602019-08-14 Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes Dundas, Colin M. Mellon, Michael T. Conway, Susan J. Gastineau, Renaldo Geophys Res Lett Research Letters Lobate stony landforms occur on steep slopes at high latitudes on Mars. We demonstrate active boulder movement at seven such sites. Submeter‐scale boulders frequently move distances of a few meters. The movement is concentrated in the vicinity of the lobate landforms but also occurs on other slopes. This provides evidence for a newly discovered, common style of activity on Mars, which may play an important role in slope degradation. It also opens the possibility that the lobate features are currently forming in the absence of significant volumes of liquid water. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-05-20 2019-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6686660/ /pubmed/31423033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082293 Text en ©2019. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Research Letters Dundas, Colin M. Mellon, Michael T. Conway, Susan J. Gastineau, Renaldo Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes |
title | Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes |
title_full | Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes |
title_fullStr | Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes |
title_full_unstemmed | Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes |
title_short | Active Boulder Movement at High Martian Latitudes |
title_sort | active boulder movement at high martian latitudes |
topic | Research Letters |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31423033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082293 |
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